U.S. v. Ikegwuonu

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 30-month term of incarceration on Hobbs Act robbery charge, followed by statutory minimum consecutive seven-year term of incarceration under section 924(c)(1) on charge of brandishing firearm during crime of violence, even though defendant argued that his Hobbs Act sentence should be lower since Dist. Ct. should have been free to take into account fact that he was subject to instant mandatory consecutive minimum sentence. Under Roberson, 474 F.3d 432, Dist. Ct. must determine appropriate sentence for underlying crime independent of section 924(c)(1) consecutive sentence add-on, and defendant failed to present any compelling reason to overturn Roberson.